Like the Chinese saying…

One minute on the stage and ten years of practice off the stage.
台上一分钟，台下十年功

That was what Moral Angels did…thank everyone!

One word to describe last Saturday, EXHILARATING! It was definitely a memorable event. The Home was flooded with joy, fun and laughter.
Ah kongs and ah mas were brought down to the dining area, where they were segregated into blue area and odd area, oh, I mean those wearing MA’s blue T-shirts; thanks to Uncle James and Aunty Jane for the sponsorship, were put to sit together on one side and those not wearing were on the other side. It looks so picture perfect.

Guests began to trickle in by 2 pm; it was such a warm feeling seeing the present of ex-moral angels like Teck Ee, Kheng Seng, Grace and Sin Lyn. Julie Sim came in and planted a big red kiss on the autograph that created a commotion among the group of Chee Hoon Kog’s guests. Humm…one fun gal, Julie.

Fiona and Ken Goh, thank you. You gals did a good job at the autograph table, making sure all guests put their well-wishes and signature on our lovely autograph board created by Hui Quan. Wonder whether all guests remember to take their door gift or not?

In came Henry, teacher in charge of Siglap Sec Sch’s Guzheng Ensemble. Within mins, 20 students were all sitting prim and proper, ready to perform. Thanks, Henry and students for giving such a wonderful performance. A regular visitor to the Home was asking me how we manage to get you guys, hahaha…

Ang Mo Kio Pri Sch’s teachers, Sze Yeng and XiaoXuan walk in with 9 little tots following behind.
Their magnificent performance was very captivating as you could literally see the joy and love oozed out from the faces of guests and elderly alike. They were the highlight of the day. 谢谢老师 :)

Loi & Chopstick sisters, u guys were mistaken for professional entertainer by Rusty’s sifu; Eric Tan. Awesome is the word to describe you guys.

Winnie has kindly given us extra 30 Sheaffer Pens for those Moral Angels that didn’t received it last Saturday. Angels, you can ask rico, yen or me for it if you want, otherwise, we will keep it as souvenirs for future guest performers.

Sharon

For more than 2 months of preparation for our 10th yr anniversary, the various sub-committee members have gone through loads of effort… From our F & B team- Xian Yen Doris & Shuhua who had rounds of brainstorming, coming out with different presentation of food so as to bring a refreshing vibe for our ah kongs and ah mas while having their meals. As for the choices of food, a huge variety was provided. Going round Singapore to collect these AMK baos that Bedok vegetarian food that that Marsiling pumpkin cakes CGH popiahs that that that XYZ kuehs and more and more…(better more than not enough) Thank you gals and also their drivers-Uncle Song, Stuart, Yen, SK… nothing gone to waste!! Elderly and nurses truly enjoyed the food!! Oh! The popiahs ‘rollers too! Auntie Molly, Auntie Grace, Sin Lyn…Thank you ladies!!

To our Exhibition Booth Team- Huiquan Jinxiong Stuart & SK, think they only in charge of preparing and setting up the exhibition booth? No, that’s not it! There were so much they have done… You think we could have our nice 10 yr anniversary logo on the water bottles without their help? How many amendments have they gone through to come up with nicely designed invitation cards, outstanding banners, engrossing posters, memorable time line, amusing montage and on and on… Thanks guys! We knew the numerous ‘sleepless nights’ and meetings you had for doing all these Truly an excellent job!! Thank you!!

As for our dearest MCs-Ping Sing and Bro Sam, yes, from discussing the program flow, producing the script, translating it into Hokkien, to countless of practices, an astonishing and entertaining MC job was put up. Bravo!! Simply Superb!! Love you both!!

Recall this “10 years of… loving, sharing, caring – Moral Angels”? Thank you Mona! Thank you for doing up such an attractive, catchy backdrop! ALL of us agreed that it was one of our ‘highlights’ of the day!! Beautifully done!!

Besides, there are more angels to thank:

Uncle Meng Huat, Uncle Song, Uncle James, Julie… for entertaining our guests.

Skit casts(you know who you are) for putting up a cute fun little skit. Especially, Alex and Shuhua who have spent so much time in modifying and rehearsing our Moral Angels’ song. Jojo how can we not recognised our ‘fashionable’ matron Ho with cute ‘silly’ dangling earrings and the ‘Roman’ sandals.

Uncle Loi for bringing down the karaoke system, getting your singers on track for the show and most importantly, putting on your glamorous suit and gave the audiences an awesome performance.
Thank you Chopstick Sis! Especially Xiaoxuan, one who gave her most natural, crazy performance to our dear elderly with the presence of her little students! Hmm, hope their image of yours didn’t change much, or rather, badly?

Mr Mok, one who truly participated enthusiastically. Thanks for singing in the skit, jumping left-jumping right between bamboos and of course, composing “Be The Angels”. Think our MA album is going to top the Billboard Chart?!

Desmond, Desment & HQ, thanks guys!! Really appreciated all the pushing-in, moving-out, plucking-in, changing this and that…logistic area couldn’t be so smooth without your support! Great work!!
Xing Jian, Derek & Jiaying, our camera/video woman and men. thanks for helping out!! Hmm, how soon could we have the photos btw?!! We are all excited to see… Pohyan, yes, you, surrender the photos this sat (6 Dec) at MH ya! Thanks la please la

Besides a looooooong “Thank You” list, there is a bit more to share. Strangely, I took some time to get myself together before I could write this flash… tears kept flowing (maybe because it’s FOC?)…don’t exactly know why, perhaps maybe it’s because I was thinking of elderly Kok Kie in particular. I wish he was there on Saturday to share our “Big Day”…cant help but having thoughts like “how many more familiar elderly would be with us for our 20th yr Anniversary?”, “how many familiar angels will be still serving MH elderly?”, “how big Moral Angels’ family is going to grow?” or “how are we going to sustain our cohesiveness, togetherness for another 10 years and more…” It’s definitely not easy to for us to come together, sharing similar objective, and do ‘the things’ together. It takes a lot of understanding, accommodating, give and take…as we, angels, are from very different backgrounds (not heaven) with different commitments & priorities.
Auntie Tomoko, I wish badly you could be with us on last Saturday celebration. Yong, where are you? Wendy, Mona, Gary, Tweety, Sindy, Kathy, Betsy, David…how nice if you all were there together as ‘the day’ belongs to you too! But, I’m sure your spirits are with us Thank you!

Lastly, to the entire committee members, just wanted to say sorry…sorry for asking to do these and to do that, sorry for changes here and there, sorry for causing ‘little sleep nights’…so sorry…for being such compassionate, capable angels who are being taken advantage of?

LOVE
“Love can make us gentle, patient, caring, humble, appreciative, considerate, understanding, generous and kind. Love is what keeps us from being hateful, unkind, envious, boastful, proud, vain and rude. It helps us not to insist on having our own way all the time, and it helps us not to be irritable, resentful or malicious. Word to consider today and every day…” Francis Gay

R

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Hello Angels,

Must remember OUR 10th year anniversary is on 29th Nov 08 (Sat)!! It’s less than 2 weeks time!? hehe okok let me do a quick report for last Saturday!

Although having much concentration on the celebration, normal activities are carried out. With Rusty being brain tortured by our ‘dumb’ king- uncle John; Auntie Molly gambling away with the ah mas; Uncle Song our Saturday purchaser; Angels Shuhua, Xian, Yen, Gary, SK, JinXiong, Sam, Jojo, Alex, Alexandra, Kengoh, Desmond, Uncle James, Aunt Jane, Uncle Meng Huat, Sharon, Rico and etc being there and then for the elderly…hmm did I missed you out??? Oh my honey! Quanquan is back from study-leave too!! Last but not least, we practised our Angels’ song, Chicken and Bamboo dance!

So, what’s next? Well, think it’s time to ‘confirm’ our little part for our 10th yr Anniversary:

Fiona and Ken Goh: Thank you for agreeing to be at our registration counter. Will update your roles later.

Uncle Meng Huat: Have you gotten your Grand Big but Short Opening Speech ready?

The Skit crew: Wow!! Rico got her difficult lines well-memorized already, how about the rest of you huh huh huh??? Oh! You all need to memorized Alex’s Moral Angels’s song too!!

Uncle Song, Mr Mok, JX and Yong: What oldies are you guys going to sing?

Shuhua and Alex: Pls protect your 20 fingers for the Moral Angels’ song

Yen, Xian, Shuhua & Doris: Get your helpers from collecting the food to preparing and serving snacks and dinner! Remember the forks, plates, bowls, tissues…oh oh drinks too?

Xiaoxuan: Hey what do your kids need for their performance on stage?

Certified Chickens-SK, JX, HQ, Mok, Alex, Xian, Shuhua, Yen, Doris, Min Yuet, Susan, Rusty, Meikuen, Kengoh, Jojo, Sharon, Rico &…(Want to be a certified chicken? Join us this sat for our last practice before the actual hehe)

Jojo & XX: How’s the Chopsticks Sisters preparation for the Get Tai?

Uncle Loi: Remember you are our Moral Home Idol!! Show the guests what you got!! oh will you be bringing your karaoke system to MH?

Stuart: Pls get a few spare lighters ready! Not high-lighters hor! :O

Logistic-Desmond & HQ: Could kindly pls ensure the projector, sound system, plugs, cables, mics (wired & wireless) & etc are all workable. If need to purchase batteries & etc… do so! $$ is not a problem HQ: Remember the extension cords, amplifier, laptop and deco ideas

MCs-Ping Sing and Bro Sam: The Best of the Best Combination!! Drink more water to protect your voice ok!

Exhibition Team: Could try to screen the montage this sat at MH?

Deco Team: How How How? Ideas to share angels?? Mona, you free to pop by MH this Sat?

Oh my!! Too many too much already!! But Angels, YOU CAN SURE DO IT WELL AND RIGHT, right? If no response/comments, I’ll try to find more jobs for you ok

Take care all! Let’s be at our top fit condition!!!

Smile
Ricola

Moral Angels 10th Year Anniversary

Date: 29th Nov, 2008 (Saturday)
Time: 2-6pm
Venue: Moral Home

Program of the Day

Remarks:
Logistic & Hifi…………………..Desmond & Desment.
Video………………………………Ah Kiat
Cameraman……………………Poh Yan & Xin Tian
Guest Relations……………….Song, Meng Huat, & Wendy

All Angels are to kindly put on their nice yellow Moral Angel T-shirt.
Report to Moral Home by 1.30pm (otherwise will be informed personally? )

Yoz yoz.. welcome back to aunty yen’s column.. hahaha well well it has been quite a while since I wrote a flash. Hope I will not bored you out ya (^.^)

Last Saturday was slightly similar to the previous Saturday where the elderly as it was also another movie day for them except that they were watching “Singapre Siao”. True enough this was a repeat telecast therefore one of the ah ma commented that we had showed them this movie before oops.. but it’s alright as we managed to occupy her with our ever lively fishing game J

At our usual IR corner, Uncle Meng Huat was busy engaging ah mas in the poker game. Moral home’s elderly and volunteers will be crowned God and Goddess of Gamblers when the casino opens in 2010. Keke…

At around 3.30pm, the no of elderly at the activity area gradually start to decrease as some of the elderly were going out for a seafood treat… yum yum hope they had enjoyed a yummy dinner last sat. Mr Loi, Jojo, Stuart, JX and some passing by volunteers filled the home with their wonderful concert like singing sessions. J

Then suddenly, Rico was spotted running frantically round the home in search of bamboo poles and bricks… aiyoh what does she wants to do with all these items? Well these items were very crucial as we need it to practice our pole dancing oops sorry I meant bamboo dance. Heng ah, thanks to Sharon we’ve managed to find the poles and bricks needed for the dance.

Shortly after dinner, the banging of the bamboo poles could be heard. Angels like Ping Sing, Ah Xian, Jojo, Doris, SK, Sharon, Rico, Mei Kuen and me were engrossed in the training session of the bamboo dance choreographed by Stuart. Thanks to SK and Sharon, we managed to catch up fast from them. From voices of “in in out out” to “in in ouch ouch”… hahaha it was indeed a fun session and thru some discussions, we’ve managed to come out with some interesting steps. Hey angels do take this opportunity to come down more often so that you can come join us in our fun practice sessions for the chicky and bamboo dances.

With the 10th anniversary drawing nearer, angels got more serious in the planning and in our room we could also see informative banner, beautiful posters and colorful invitation cards being printed out. It was indeed very lovely. J A very big thank you for all the hard work.

Oh by the way, what do you think our vision will be the next 5 years? Perhaps angels, you can give it a thought and don’t be shy to share your thoughts ya. And last but not least, as what VL has mentioned, llet’s work hand in hand to make this 10yrs Anniversary a success.

See you soon in our dance rehearsals sessions ya… cheers!

Luff
Aunty Yen

Hi Hi Angels,

Event: Moral Angels 10th Year Anniversary Celebration
Date: 22nd November 2008
Time: 2.30pm ~ 5.00pm
Venue: Chee Hoon Kog Moral Promotion Society; Moral Home for the Aged Sick

Main Organizers: Sharon Liow, Rico Chow and Christina Lee

* Please kindly post all your comments and suggestion provided at the left hand site of the webpage “Moral Angels 10th Year Anniversary”.